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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RETURN THE PAGE Online book buyers were in an uproar last week when Amazon.com admitted it had been selling publishers prominent placement for their books in sections such as "Destined for Greatness" and "What We're Reading." Amazon denies it ever spotlighted a book without editors' approval, but it will let customers return any book it ever recommended, no matter how beaten up. Amazon will also now disclose to customers which digital displays are paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Feb. 22, 1999 | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...senior defenseman Ben Storey atthe right point. Storey slid it over to Scorsune.From almost the same spot that Storey scored hislast-second goal last season, Scorsune drilled ashot through traffic that sailed pastwell-screened freshman netminder Jason Braun tothe stick side. The shot sent the Fleet Centerinto an uproar--and temporarily gave the Crimsonvisions of grandeur...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: NIGHTMARE ON ICE! | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...making a huge uproar against those particular documents in one particular government class, the school board is putting a much larger emphasis on sex than necessary. There needs to be a greater understanding that discussion is not the same as advocacy. Talking about the indiscretions of the President in government class does not mean that the school supports or endorses "inappropriate" behavior. It is high time to move beyond outdated sensibilities that cloak sexuality in shame and secrecy...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

Benjamin Netanyahu decided not to press his luck. Afer causing an uproar earlier today with a last-second threat to bail out of peace talks unless President Clinton released convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli prime minister backed down. Instead, the issue of Pollard, a civilian U.S. Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel, has been tabled until that nicest of diplomatic elements -- an unspecified later date -- occurs. The Israelis and Palestinians signed a pact Friday covering the Wye talks' main issue: Israeli withdrawal from 13.1 percent of the West Bank in exchange for greater security guarantees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arafat and Netanyahu Reach a Deal | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

Lampoon president Matt J.T. Murray '99 calls the chamber pot uproar "the Lampoon's first prank" and maintains that Hearst was not expelled but "expunged," meaning that the college destroyed his entire record and any other traces of his having attended Harvard. Current administrators deny knowledge of any such abrogation, and, in fact, no one struck the boy's name from the Faculty records. On September 30, 1885, the Faculty negged Heart's petition to take special exams in order to rejoin his class; on May 4 of the next year, they denied his request to take the eight exams...

Author: By Micaela K. Root, | Title: Why to drop out of school | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

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